Headline Roundup • December 22nd, 2021
Harvard Professor Found Guilty of Lying About Ties to Chinese Government Recruitment Program
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A Harvard professor has been convicted of concealing ties to a Chinese-run program that seeks to recruit American scientists to help advance China's scientific development.
Harvard University chemistry professor Charles Lieber was found guilty this week of making false statements to authorities, filing false tax returns and failing to report a Chinese bank account. Lieber was convicted by a jury in Massachusetts federal court; the jury concluded that he lied to government investigators about his participation in the Chinese government’s Thousand Talents program, which seeks to recruit foreign experts to work for China, and that he failed to report cash payments from the program. Prosecutors showed evidence that Lieber signed an agreement through the program with the Wuhan University of Technology that paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars, some of which he received via deposits into a Chinese bank account.
The guilty verdict was covered prominently by sources across the spectrum Wednesday.
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A Harvard University professor has been convicted of hiding ties to a China-run recruitment programme.
Charles Lieber was found guilty of making false statements to authorities, filing false tax returns and failing to report a Chinese bank account. His sentencing date is yet to be decided.
The 62-year-old was charged in 2020 as part of a US campaign to counter economic espionage from China.
However, some critics say this campaign harms academic research.
Prosecutors in Boston said Lieber knowingly hid his involvement in China's "Thousand Talents Plan", which aims to...
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A Harvard University professor was convicted by a federal jury on Tuesday of lying to the US about his involvement with China's government, the Justice Department announced.
Dr. Charles Lieber, 62, the former chair of Harvard's Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, was found guilty of two counts of making false statements to federal authorities, two counts of making and subscribing a false income tax return, and two counts of failing to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts with the Internal Revenue Service.
Lieber's research group at Harvard had received...
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Harvard University chemistry and engineering professor Charles Lieber was found guilty of lying about his ties to the Chinese government.
Last year, Lieber was indicted and charged with making false statements to federal authorities about his participation in a Chinese-run program that seeks to lure American scientists to advance the communist nation’s scientific development.
On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reported:
Mr. Lieber, who holds joint appointments in Harvard University’s chemistry and engineering departments and is a renowned expert in the field of nanoscience, was accused of lying to government investigators about his participation...
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